Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 313
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 
  • To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
     
13.00

W.B. Yeats     
The Second Coming
When You are Old
A Prayer for My Daughter    
Easter 1916

13.00

T.S. Eliot    
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes

12.00

Rupert Brooke    
The Soldier
The Dead (I & II)
Wilfred Owen    
Strange Meeting
Anthem for Doomed Youth

12.00

John Galsworthy    
Justice
 

12.00

J.M. Barrie    
The Admirable Crichton

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.
  2. Ford, Boris. Ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature vol. 8. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  3. Hall, James & Martin Steinmann: The Permanence of Yeats. New York: Collier Books, 1961.
  4. Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1950.
  5. Matthiessen, F.D. The Achievement of T.S. Eliot. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
  6. Norman Jeffares A. Yeats’ Selected Poems. London: Hutchinson, 1988.
  7. Southam, B.C.  T.S. Eliot ‘Prufrock’, ‘Gerontion’, ‘Ash Wednesday’ and Other Shorter   Poems - A Case Book London: Macmillan, 1978
  8. Ward, A.C. Twentieth Century Literature. London: The English Language Book Society and Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1965.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017